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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

GIGI CONOT, “NATURAL SELECTIONS”, OPENS APRIL 29

The Lane
Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Natural Selections, by regional artist
Gigi Conot. Gigi has worked and studied on the west coast, including places
such as Colorado and San Francisco before settling in Portland, Oregon.

When
discussing the content of her photographic work within this exhibition, Conot
spoke of the inspiration of nature: “I was living in a small studio in a very urban area, where plants
and trees were confined to areas in the city that you had to make a point to
travel to. I think it was almost a matter of deprivation, the more I missed
nature the more I obsessed over it. I started going to the farmers market and
looking at my produce very carefully, examining their shapes, leaves, contours
and shadows. I began to see structural beauty that was truly unlike anything
that you’ll find in a man-made object.

For more information, you can visit Gigi Conot’s website at: www.gconot.com

The show runs from April 29th to May 23rd. A
lecture will take place on Thursday, May 16th, beginning at 3:00
with a reception immediately following. The lecture and reception are free and
open to the public. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus,
4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied
Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

The
Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present “Out of Round”, a two-person show featuring artists and Lane
Community College Studio Technicians, Justin Stuck and Anna Stehle. Justin
works in the sculpture studio and Anna works in the ceramics studio within the
Department of Art and Applied Design. The exhibition consists of both sculpture
and ceramics, along with installation work.

When asked about his sculpture and the nature of this work, Justin
stated, “I hope to appeal to the imagination, to that place within us, in which
resides our images of reality and our images of life itself. From
there I hope to spark a different way of seeing the world, to bring about new
and possibly different images for shaping our deeper understanding of the
experience of life.”

The
show runs from April 29th to May 23rd. A
lecture featuring both artists will be held on Monday, May 20th at
3:00 pm with a closing reception immediately following.

The
gallery is located in building 11 on main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon.
There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone
number is 541- 463-5409.